From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:04:08 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Documentation: diff can compare blobs
X-Git-Tag: v1.7.3.2~11
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed84e6d511f9e754d6331c63468bf7421b1e0894;p=git.git

Documentation: diff can compare blobs

Meanwhile, there is no plumbing command to compare two blobs.
Strange.

Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 481a33c7d..db2c6c2d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -64,8 +64,9 @@ forced by --no-index.
 
 Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
 noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
-for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
-<tree-ish>.
+in the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
+<tree>.  The third form ('git diff <commit> <commit>') can also
+be used to compare two <blob> objects.
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:gitrevisions[7].